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African Americans in Film Collection, 1919-2000
Summary
Abstract
The African Americans in Film Collection includes ephemeral materials, especially posters and pressbooks, promoting and advertising motion pictures featuring Black actors, directors, and production companies.
Extent
15 Linear Feet
Language
English.
Collection ID
RL.00019
Background
Scope and content
The African Americans in Film collection includes ephemeral materials promoting and advertising motion pictures featuring Black actors, directors, and production companies. Materials in this collection include press books, posters, promotional booklets, campaign books, advertising manuals, programs, lobby cards, and other formats. The films documented include silent films, Blaxploitation films, blockbuster action films, musicals, documentaries, and dramas, from smaller Black owned and operated companies to major studio productions. Actors frequently featured in films documented here include Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Brock Peters, Fred Williamson, Ruby Dee, Brenda Sykes, Sammie Davis Jr., James Earl Jones, and many others.
Description often includes the format of the material and/or one or more of the Black stars featured in the film. Some description provided by George Robert Minkoff Inc., the dealer from whom part of the collection was purchased, is provided in quotes. Some of that description may have originated from the books Blacks in American films and television: an encyclopedia. and Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks: an interpretive history of Blacks in American films., both by Donald Bogle. The majority of the materials are from the United States, but a few items were created by or for audiences in other countries such as Japan, Denmark, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and are noted as such.
Biographical / historical
Motion picture films have been created in the United States, primarily in southern California, since the very early 20th century.
The Norman Film Manufacturing Company was created in the late 1910s by Richard Norman and produced films with all-Black casts, known at the time as "race films". Race films were those movies made specifically for African American audiences and with African American casts. The studio produced silent films including The Green-Eyed Monster (1919), The Love Bug (1919), The Bull Dogger (1921), Crimson Skull (1921), Regeneration (1923), The Flying Ace (1926), and Black Gold (1928). The company and studio was located in Jacksonville, FL, along with a number of other studios in the 1910s and 1920s, but when the film industry adopted talking films and shifted to Hollywood, CA, the Norman Film Manufacturing Company moved to distributing films, then exhibiting films, before shutting down in the 1940s. The only surviving film is the Flying Ace, which was restored by the Library of Congress and is available for viewing online.
Pressbooks were marketing and promotional tools created by film distributors and sent to movie theaters. Pressbooks usually included images of posters, lobby cards, and other advertising materials available to promote the film, as well as suggestions or guides for advertising and promotion. Pressbooks came in a wide variety of sizes and could also include additional information about the film and cast itself. Pressbooks were commonly produced by major film studios from the 1910s onward.
Acquisition information
The African Americans in Film Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase from George Robert Minkoff Inc. in 2001, 2009, 2010, and 2014, and Michael Bowen in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Processing information
Processed by Rubenstein Library staff
Completed September 26, 2002
Encoded by Joshua A. Kaiser
Updated by Alice Poffinberger, and Paula Jeannet, August and December 2010, and May 2014.
Collection rearranged to accommodate new acquisitions and collection-level notes updated by Tracy M. Jackson, December 2022, February 2023.
Accession 2023-0059 added by Leah Tams, September 2023.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by film title.
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Browsing
By Container
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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48 Hours, 1982 | French press book; Starring Eddie Murphy. | |
A.K.A. Cassius Clay, 1970 | Feature about the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali. | |
Airport '77, 1977 | British advertising promotion guide sheet | |
Airport '77, 1977 | Press book; Starring Robert Hooks. | |
All the Young Men, 1960 | Advertising supplement | Publicity specifically designed for Black audiences. |
Amazing Grace, 1974 | Press book; Starring Moms Mabley and Stepin Fetchit. | |
American Gigolo, 1980 | Starring Bill Duke. | |
American Gigolo, 1980 | British press kit | |
Amistad, 1997 | Japanese promotional booklet; Starring Djimon Hounsou. | |
Angel Levine, The, 1970 | Harry Belafonte produced and starred in this adaptation of Bernard Malamud. | |
Angels in the Outfield, 1994 | Promotional booklet | Sent out by Disney and containing an article about Danny Glover and the film. |
Another 48 Hrs, 1990 | Japanese promotional brochure; Starring Eddie Murphy. | |
Bamboozled, 2000 | Spike Lee directed this film about a frustrated African American TV writer who proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but it becomes a hit, to his chagrin. Starring Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tommy Davidson. | |
Big Doll House, The, 1971 | Pam Grier in one of her early starring roles. | |
Billy Jack, 1971 | ||
Bird, 1988 | French press sheet | Clint Eastwood directed this biography of the legendary Charlie Parker, who was portrayed by Forest Whitaker. |
Black Belt Jones, 1974 | Press book; Starring Jim Kelly and Scatman Crothers. | |
Black Belt Jones, 1974 | Promotional booklet done like a comic book | |
Black Caesar, 1973 | Starring Fred Williamson. | |
Black Girl, 1972 | Press book; Ossie Davis (director). Starring Leslie Uggams and Ruby Dee. | |
Black Gold, 1927 | Black-cast drama about oil-drilling from the Norman Film Manufacturing Company. | |
Black Mama, White Mama, 1972 | Starring Pam Grier. | |
Black Rodeo, 1972 | Press book | Rodeo documentary, with guest appearances by Muhammad Ali and Woody Strode. |
Black Shampoo, 1976 | Blaxploitation film starring John Daniels and Tanya Boyd. | |
Blazing Stewardesses, 1974 | ||
Book of Numbers, 1973 | Starring Raymond St. Jacques. | |
Bronco Billy, 1980 | Special promotional booklet | Synopses in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. |
Bronze Venus, 1943 | Reissue of 1938 film The Duke is Tops; Lena Horne's debut film and a very rare specimen of Black independent filmmaking. | |
Brubaker, 1980 | British press book | |
Brubaker, 1980 | Press book; Starring Yaphet Kotto. | |
Bull-Dogger, The, 1921 | Advertising flyer for four Norman Film Manufacturing Company Black-cast films suggested as a quadruple bill: The Love Bug ( 1919), The Crimson Skull ( 1921), The Green-Eyed Monster ( 1919) and The Bull-Dogger ( 1921). | |
Burn!, 1970 | Film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo about a slave revolt on a Caribbean island early in the 19th century. | |
Bus is Coming, The, 1971 | Starring Mike Sims. | |
Can't Stop the Music, 1980 | Campaign press book; Starring Alex Briley and Ray Simpson. | |
Cardinal, The, 1963 | Ossie Davis portrays a Southern Roman Catholic priest whose church has been burned by the KKK. | |
Carmen Jones, 1954 | Danish theater program | Program is extensively illustrated. |
Celebration at Big Sur, 1971 | Press book; Starring Dorothy Morrison and the Combs Sisters. | |
Chain Gang Women, 1971 | ||
Change of Mind, 1969 | Ad supplement | |
Change of Mind, 1969 | Starring Raymond St. Jacques. | The brain of a white district attorney is transplanted into the body of a Black man. |
Charley-One-Eye, 1972 | Press book | Richard Roundtree in a Blaxploitation western. |
Chase for the Golden Needles, 1974 | Campaign manual; Starring Jim Kelly. | |
Checkerboard, 1959 | Exhibitor's manual | American release of the French film Les Tripes Au Soleil, a film whose setting is unclear (it seems to be a French film set in the Old West), with the cast equally divided between Black and white actors. |
Claudine, 1974 | Press book; Starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. | |
Clay Pigeon, 1971 | Exhibitor's campaign book; Starring Ivan Dixon. | |
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, 1975 | Press book; Starring Tamara Dobson. | |
Cleopatra Jones, 1973 | Press book; Starring Tamara Dobson. | |
Coffy, 1973 | Starring Pam Grier. | |
Color Purple, 1985 | Exhibitor's campaign book (British press book); | |
Come Back, Charleston Blue, 1972 | Press book; Starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques. | This is a sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem, adapted, like its precursor, from Chester Himes. |
Condor, El, 1970 | Starring Jim Brown. | |
Cool Breeze, 1972 | Press book; Starring Pam Grier and Thalmus Rasulala. | |
Cotton Club, 1984 | Japanese promotional brochure; Starring Gregory Hines. | |
Crimson Skull, 1921 | From the Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Baffling Western Mystery Photo-Play. Supported by Bill Pickett, World's Champion Wild West Performer, the one-legged Marvel, Steve Reynolds, and 30 Colored Cowboys. Produced in the All-Colored City of Boley, Okla. An Epic of Wild Life and Smoking Revolvers. All-Colored Cast. Contains an article by star Anita Bush, Introduction of Negro Drama in New York. | |
Crimson Skull, 1921 | Advertising flyer for four Norman Film Manufacturing Company Black-cast films suggested as a quadruple bill: The Love Bug ( 1919), The Crimson Skull ( 1921), The Green-Eyed Monster ( 1919) and The Bull-Dogger ( 1921). |
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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Dark of the Sun, 1968 | Starring Jim Brown. | |
Decks Ran Red, The, 1958 | Press book; Starring Dorothy Dandridge. | |
Defiant Ones, The, 1958 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Demolition Man, 1993 | Japanese promotional booklet; Starring Wesley Snipes. | |
Detective, The, 1968 | Starring Al Freeman, Jr. | |
Detective, The, 1968 | British press book | |
Devil and Max Devlin, The, 1981 | Ad pad | |
Diamonds, 1975 | Ad supplement | |
Die Hard with a Vengeance, 1995 | Japanese promotional booklet; Starring Samuel L. Jackson. | |
Drum, 1976 | British press book | |
Duel at Diablo, 1966 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Duel at Diablo, 1966 | Advertising supplement | |
Earthquake, 1974 | Press book; Starring Richard Roundtree. | |
Ebony Ivory & Jade, 1976 | Action film with female stars, one African-American, one Caucasian, and one Asian. | |
Edge of the City, 1957 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. | |
Evil in the Deep, 1976 | Starring Rosey Greer. | |
Final Comedown, The, 1972 | Starring Billy Dee Williams. | |
Five on the Black Hand Side, 1973 | Press book; Starring Ja'net DuBois, Virginia Capers, and Sonny Jim Gaines. | |
Flying Ace, The, 1926 | A Black-cast aviation drama from the Norman Film Manufacturing Company. | |
For Love of Ivy, 1968 | Press book | Sidney Poitier starred in this film; screenplay from an original story by Poitier. |
Fort Apache, The Bronx, 1981 | British press book; Starring Pam Grier. | |
Foxy Brown, 1974 | Starring Pam Grier. | |
From Nashville with Music, 1969 | Country and western musical film, racially integrated by the presence of singer Charley Pride. | |
Georgia, Georgia, 1972 | Press book; Starring Diane Sands. Script by Maya Angelou. | |
Ghostbusters II, 1989 | British press book; Starring Ernie Hudson. | |
Glory, 1989 | Promotional book; Starring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Andre Braugher | Sumptuously illustrated book on the film, printed in a small edition for circulation to major theater chains. |
Glory, 1989 | Broadsides | Four broadsides used in the movie. Includes: Proclamation... April 10, 1863 (2 copies); The Enemy is Approaching; and Regulations for Camp Readville. |
Going to Glory. . . Come to Jesus, 1946 | Lobby cards and bag | Eight lobby cards used to advertise the movie in theater lobbies, along with the paper bag for the cards. |
Gone with the Wind [The Story of], 1939 | Reissued 1967; Starring Hattie McDaniel. | |
Gone with the Wind, 1939 | Reissued 1967; Starring Hattie McDaniel. | |
Gordon's War, 1973 | Press book; Starring Paul Winfield. | Bogle, p. 96: [Winfield] portrays a Vietnam veteran returning home to New York to a dead wife, the victim of a drug overdose. Enlisting the aid of three other Viet vets, he becomes a vigilante, determined to rub out the dope dealers |
Gordon's War, 1973 | Promotional brochure | |
Grand Canyon, 1991 | British press book; Starring Danny Glover. | |
Grasshopper, The, 1970 | Advertising supplement | |
Grasshopper, The, 1970 | ||
Great White Hope, The, 1970 | Press book; Starring James Earl Jones. | |
Green-Eyed Monster, The, 1919 | Advertising flyer for four Norman Film Manufacturing Company Black-cast films suggested as a quadruple bill: The Love Bug ( 1919), The Crimson Skull ( 1921), The Green-Eyed Monster ( 1919) and The Bull-Dogger ( 1921). | |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1969 | 1969 reissue of 1967 film on double-bill with 1966 film To Sir, With Love; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Halls of Anger, 1970 | Starring Calvin Lockhart. | |
Hammer, 1972 | Starring Fred Williamson. | |
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The, 1968 | Press book | Cicely Tyson in a Carson McCullers adaptation. |
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The, 1968 | Special promotional flyer | |
Hickey & Boggs, 1972 | Detective film, starred Bill Cosby with his costar from the I Spy television series of the 1960s, Robert Culp. | |
Hit Man, 1972 | Press book; Starring Bernie Casey. | |
Hit!, 1973 | Press book and merchandising manual; Starring Billie Dee Williams and Richard Pryor. | |
Honky, 1971 | Starring Brenda Sykes. | |
Hurry Sundown, 1967 | Press book ad supplement; | |
I Crossed the Color Line, 1966 | Starring Max Julien. | |
I Escaped From Devil's Island, 1973 | Press book; Starring Jim Brown. | |
In the Heat of the Night, 1967 | Danish illustrated theater program | |
In the Heat of the Night, 1967 | Special ad supplement | Issued in conjunction with the film's winning two Oscars. |
Incident, The, 1967 | Press book; Starring Ruby Dee and Brock Peters. | |
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, 1999 | Starring Halle Berry. | |
Kenner, 1969 | Press book; Starring Jim Brown. | |
Kill Squad, 1981 | ||
Klansman, The, 1974 | Advertising booklet | |
Klansman, The, 1974 | Supplementary advertising sheets |
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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L-Shaped Room, The, 1962 | Press book insert | |
L-Shaped Room, The, 1962 | Press book; Starring Brock Peters. | |
L-Shaped Room, The, 1962 | Press book insert 2 | |
Lady Sings the Blues, 1972 | Starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor. | |
Lady Sings the Blues, 1972 | Advertising | |
Lady Sings the Blues, 1972 | Press book ad supplement | |
Landlord, The, 1970 | Screenplay by William Gunn. Starring Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, and Louis Gossett Jr. | |
Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots, 1969 | Press book | Robert Hooks in a Tennesse Williams adaptation of The Seven Descents of Myrtle. |
Learning Tree, The, 1969 | Press book; Director and producer: Gordon Parks. | |
Learning Tree, The, 1969 | Promotional flyer | |
Let No Man Write My Epitaph, 1960 | Ella Fitzgerald's first dramatic role, that of a nightclub singer in a Skid Row bar. | |
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The, 1970 | Press book insert | |
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The, 1970 | Press book insert | This press book insert was especially prepared for placement in Negro newspapers. |
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The, 1970 | Press book; Starring Yaphet Kotto. | |
Lifeboat, 1944 | Danish souvenir program | All original materials from Lifeboat are extremely uncommon. Canada Lee co-starred in this Hitchcock film from a script by John Steinbeck. Lee's performance is often cited by historians as an early case of a Black actor playing a non-stereotypical role in a major Hollywood film. |
Lilies of the Field, 1963 | Danish illustrated theater program | |
Lilies of the Field, 1963 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Long Ships, The, 1963 | Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Lost Man, The, 1969 | Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Lost Man, The, 1969 | Advertising supplement | |
Love Bug, The, 1919 | Advertising flyer | Advertising flyer for four Norman Film Manufacturing Company Black-cast films suggested as a quadruple bill: The Love Bug ( 1919), The Crimson Skull ( 1921), The Green-Eyed Monster ( 1919) and The Bull-Dogger ( 1921). |
Mack, The, 1977 | 1977 reissue of 1973 film; Starring Richard Pryor. | |
Malaga, 1962 | Press book; Starring Dorothy Dandridge, | |
Malcolm X, 1972 | Press book | Feature-length documentary about the life of Malcolm X, given a very limited release by Warner Brothers, all materials from this film are extremely hard to find. |
Malcolm X, 1992 | Promotional book | Directed by Spike Lee. Deluxe special illustrated promotional book on the film, printed in small edition, profusely and richly illustrated. |
Man Friday, 1975 | Ad Supplement | With special promotion for Black audiences. |
Man, The, 1972 | Press book; Starring James Earl Jones | The first Black President of the United States. First they swore him in. Then they swore to get him. |
Mandingo, 1975 | Starring Ken Norton and Brenda Sykes. | |
Mark of the Hawk, The, 1957 | Starring Sidney Poitier, Eartha Kitt, and Juano Hernandez. | |
Marked For Death, 1990 | Starring Basil Wallace. | |
McMasters, The, 1969 | Starring Brock Peters. | |
McMasters, The, 1969 | British press book | |
Mean Mother, 1973 | Starring Clifton Brown. | |
Men in Black, 1997 | Japanese promotional brochure; Starring Will Smith. | |
Mission Impossible, 1996 | Screening program; Starring Ving Rhames. | |
Muthers, The, 1976 | Starring Jeanne Bell and Jayne Kennedy. | |
Naked Gun 2 1/2, 1991 | British press book; Starring O.J. Simpson. | |
Naked Prey, The, 1966 | Starring Ken Gampu. | |
Naked Prey, The, 1966 | British campaign book | |
Naked Prey, The, 1966 | Promotional pamphlet | |
New Jack City, 1991 | Japanese promotional brochure; Starring Wesley Snipes. | |
One More Time, 1970 | Press book; Starring Sammy Davis, Jr. | |
Organization, The, 1971 | Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Paris Blues, 1961 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll. | |
Police Academy, 1984 | British press book; Strring Michael Winslow and Bubba Smith. | |
Pressure Point, 1962 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Quadroon, 1972 | ||
Quadroon, 1972 | Promotional flyer | |
Rainbow Bridge, 1972 | Press book; Starring Jimi Hendrix. | |
Regeneration, 1923 | Romance in Southern Seas featuring Stella Mayo, Sensational Colored Screen Beauty. All-Colored Cast, contains a detailed list of proposed upcoming production and text emphasizing that Norman is the only Company making Colored Pictures that owns and operates its own studio and laboratory. | |
Riot, 1969 | Press book; Starring Jim Brown. | |
Riot, 1969 | Promotional booklet The Prison Record | |
Robin and the 7 Hoods, 1964 | Press book | Sammy Davis Jr. in one of the famous Rat Pack films with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, et al. Bogle II, p. 214-5: On the surface the clan pictures were egalitarian affairs; underneath they rotted from white patronizing and hypocrisy |
Rock Baby, Rock It, 1957 | B-movie rock musical showcased calypso group the Five Stars. | |
Rock Baby, Rock It, 1957 | Promotional flyer | |
Rocky III, 1982 | Advertising supplement |
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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Sam Whiskey, 1969 | Press book; Starring Ossie Davis. | |
Sapphire, 1959 | Rare film about Afro-British life, a mystery about a young woman attempting to pass. | |
Save the Children, 1973 | Press book; Featuring Jesse Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., the Chi-Lites, Nancy Wilson, and the Temptations | Concert film from the 1972 Operation PUSH exposition in Chicago, interspersed with documentary footage of the period. |
Save the Children, 1973 | Advertising sheets | |
Scalphunters, The, 1968 | Advertising supplement (#2) | |
Scream, Blacula, Scream, 1973 | British press book | |
Scream, Blacula, Scream, 1973 | Starring William Marshall. | |
Seizure, 1974 | Press book; Starring Henry Baker. | |
Shaft in Africa, 1973 | Press book; Starring Richard Roundtree. | |
Shaft, 1971 | Press book | One of the legendary films which launched the Blaxploitation film cycle of the 1970s. |
Shaft's Big Score!, 1972 | Press book | Director Gordon Parks and Richard Roundtree teamed up again for this first sequel. |
Shaft's Big Score!, 1972 | Press book | |
Shock Corridor, 1963 | Promotional brochure | |
Silver Streak, 1976 | Press book | The first of a very successful series of comedies pairing Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. |
Skin Game, 1971 | Press book; Starring Lou Gossett, Jr. | |
Slams, The, 1973 | Press book; Starring Jim Brown and Judy Pace. | |
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, 1973 | Starring Jim Brown and Brock Peters. | |
Slaves, The, 1969 | Starring Dionne Warwick and Ossie Davis | Official entry 1969 Cannes Film Festival. |
Slender Thread, The, 1965 | Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Soul of Nigger Charley, 1973 | Press book; Starring Fred Williamson. | |
Soul of Nigger Charley, 1973 | Advertising sheets | |
Soul Soldier, 1970 | Very early entry in the Blaxploitation cycle starring athlete Rafer Johnson. | |
Soul to Soul, 1971 | Press book; Starring Roberta Flack and Wilson Pickett. | |
Sparkle, 1976 | Starring Irene Cara and Lonette McKee. | |
Split, The, 1968 | Campaign book; Starring Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll. | |
St. Louis Blues, 1958 | Theatre program; Starring Eartha Kitt, Nat King Cole, Ruby Dee, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Pearl Bailey, and Mahalia Jackson | Theatre program from Germany, with an elegant photomontage of images from the film. |
Stormy Weather, 1943 | Souvenir program | Famous wartime musical which made use of an astonishing virtual who's who of top African-American talents. Lena Horne. Fats Waller. The Nicholas Brothers. Cab Calloway. Bill Robinson. All promotional materials from this film are extremely scarce. This is a nicely illustrated souvenir program from Denmark. |
Sugar Hill, 1974 | Starring Marki Bey. | |
Super Fly T.N.T., 1973 | Press book; Starring Ron O'Neal. | |
Super Fly T.N.T., 1973 | Advertising sheets | |
Super Fly, 1972 | Press book; Starring Ron O'Neal. | |
Swashbuckler, 1976 | Advertising supplement | |
Sweet Jesus Preacher Man, 1973 | Press book; Starring Roger E. Mosely. | |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, 1971 | Press book | Melvin Van Peebles (director). [This is an extremely rare press book, all original materials from this film seem to have vanished a long time ago.] |
Take A Hard Ride, 1975 | Ad supplement | |
Teenage Millionaire, 1962 | Press book; Starring Jackie Wilson and Chubby Checker. | |
That Man Bolt, 1973 | Press book; Starring Fred Williamson. | |
That Man Bolt, 1973 | Advertising supplement | |
That's the Way of the World, 1975 | Press book; Starring the group Earth, Wind, and Fire. | |
They Call Me Mister Tibbs, 1970 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Three the Hard Way, 1974 | Starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly. Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. | |
Tick. . . Tick. . . Tick. . ., 1970 | Starring Jim Brown. [A small area of blank margin to one leaf is missing, with no content affected]. | |
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1967 | 1967 reissue of 1962 film; Starring Brock Peters | Reissue on a double bill with, of all the possible unlikely choices, a Doris Day comedy. |
To Sir, With Love, 1966 | Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
To Sir, With Love, 1966 | Advertising press book insert | Multiple-run and hold over advertising press book insert. |
Top of the Heap, 1972 | Starring Christopher St. John (also producer, writer, and director). Early entry in the Blaxploitation cycle. Bogle II, p. 241. | |
Topaz, 1969 | Advertising booklet; Starring Roscoe Lee Browne | |
Topaz, 1969 | Advertising sheets | |
Towering Inferno, The, 1974 | Press book; Starring O.J. Simpson. | |
Toy, The, 1982 | Special advertising printout | |
Trouble Man, 1972 | Starring Robert Hooks and Paula Kelly. | |
Truck Turner, 1974 | Starring Isaac Hayes. | |
Truck Turner, 1974 | Promotional newsletter; Starring Isaac Hayes | Special promotional piece in the form of a newsletter, International Bail Bond News. |
Truck Turner, 1974 | Press book | Special press book for a double-bill release with Foxy Brown (1974). |
Twilight Zone-The Movie, 1983 | British campaign book; Starring Scatman Crothers. | |
Two Gentlemen Sharing, 1969 | Starring Hal Frederick and Esther Anderson | Unusual but sensationally-treated story of mixed race couples. |
Uptight!, 1968 | Starring Ruby Dee and Roscoe Lee Browne. | |
Warm December, A, 1973 | Press book; Starring Sidney Poitier. | |
Watermelon Man, 1970 | Press book insert | |
Watusi, 1959 | Starring Rex Ingram. | |
Watusi, 1959 | Promotional booklet | |
Winterhawk, 1976 | Starring Woody Strode. | |
Woodstock, 1970 | Legendary rock musical showcases Sly and the Family Stone, Richie Havens, and, of course, Jimi Hendrix. | |
World, The Flesh and the Devil, The, 1959 | Press book; Starring Harry Belafonte | Science-fiction film in which Belafonte is one of only three survivors of a nuclear holocaust, produced by Belafonte. |
World's Greatest Athlete, The, 1973 | Ad pad | |
Wusa, 1970 | Starring Moses Gunn. | |
Zircon, 1920 | Flyer for unproduced film serial of the 1920s featuring 15 chapters. Also features advertisements for films Regeneration, The Crimson Skull, Green Eyed Monster, and The Bull Dogger. |
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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Across 110th Street, 1972 | pressbook | |
Anna Lucasta, 1959 | pressbook | |
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men, 1974 | pressbook | |
Black Eye, 1974 | pressbook | |
Black Gestapo, 1973 | lithograph print | |
Black Heat, 1976 | pressbook | |
Black Samson, 1974 | pressbook | |
Black Samurai, 1976 | pressbook | |
Black Shampoo, 1976 | pressbook | |
Blacula, 1972 | lobby card | |
Bright Road, 1953 | pressbook, lobby card | |
Bright Road, 1953 | press photographs | |
Brother John, 1971 | pressbook | |
Buck and the Preacher, 1972 | pressbook | |
Carbon Copy, 1981 | pressbook | |
Carmen Jones, 1954 | Lobby cards (2) | Poster is in color and shows actor Harry Belafonte, standing, kissing the feet of actress Dorothy Dandridge, who is sitting on the edge of a table. Visible graphic dimensions: 10.75x13.75 inches. |
Change of Mind, 1969 | premiere program | |
Cleopatra Jones, 1973 | premier program | |
Color Purple, 1985 | pressbook | |
Coonskin, 1974 | pressbook | |
Cornbread, Earl and Me, 1975 | pressbook | |
Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1970 | pressbook | |
Countdown at Kusini, 1976 | pressbook | |
Detroit 9000, 1973 | pressbook | |
Double Possession (a.k.a. Ganja & Hess), 1973 | pressbook | |
Education of Sonny Carson, 1974 | pressbook | |
Fight Never Ends, The, 1948 | press photographs | |
Foxy Brown, 1974 | sell sheets | |
Friday Foster, 1976 | pressbook | |
God's Step Children, 1938 | Lobby card | Directed by Oscar Micheaux. From the story Naomi, Negress. Poster, circa 1938, is in color and shows a seated man on left, bending over a distressed woman lying sick in bed. Visible graphic dimensions: 10.75x13.75 inches. |
Gone Are the Days, 1963 | pressbook | |
Greatest, The, 1977 | pressbook | |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 | pressbook | |
Home of the Brave, 1949 | pressbook | |
Honky, 1971 | pressbook | |
If He Hollers Let Him Go!, 1968 | pressbook | |
J. D.'s Revenge, 1976 | pressbook | |
Jive Turkey, 1976 | pressbook | |
Legend of Nigger Charley, 1972 | pressbook | |
Monkey Hustle, 1976 | pressbook | |
Norman ... Is That You?, 1976 | pressbook | |
Nothing But a Man, 1964 | pressbook | |
Organization, The, 1971 | pressbook | |
Penitentiary, 1979 | pressbook | |
Piece of the Action, A, 1977 | pressbook | |
Pipe Dreams, 1976 | pressbook | |
Raisin in the Sun, A, 1961 | pressbook | |
Return of Mandy's Husband, 1948 | Lobby cards (6) | Group of six half-tone lobby cards. 11x14 inches; some small stains here and there. Florida: Toddy Films, 1948. One of a series of Toddy Films' comedies featuring Mantan Moreland. |
Savage, 1973 | pressbook | |
Slaughter, 1972 | premiere program | |
Solomon King, 1974 | pressbook | |
Sounder, 1972 | pressbook | |
Spook Who Sat by the Door, The, 1973 | pressbook | |
Story of a Three-Day Pass, 1968 | pressbook | |
Take a Hard Ride, 1975 | pressbook | |
Take, The, 1974 | pressbook | |
Tamango, 1958 | lobby cards | |
Thing with Two Heads, The, 1972 | pressbook | |
Three Tough Guys, 1974 | pressbook | |
Together Brothers, 1974 | pressbook | |
Trouble Man, 1972 | pressbook | |
Uptown Saturday Night, 1974 | pressbook |
Item Title | Description | Annotation |
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Car Wash, 1976 | pressbook | |
The Cool World, circa 1963 | Pressbook; directed by Shirley Clarke. | |
Trick Baby, 1973 | pressbook | |
Which Way Is Up?, 1977 | pressbook | |
Willie Dynamite, 1974 | pressbook |